animmilus

'animmilus' was filmed between 1999 and 2000 whilst working at Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester. It was shot using the short ends of 16mm colour stock. Filmed within a metropolitan sprawl there were pockets of nature, where if captured in the right way were indistinguishable from the rural environments. This became the basis of the idea - finding nature, the patterns of light through leaves and water, the movement of the waves, pebbles across a beach in contrast to the movement and patterns of light from the white noise static of a TV and old video tapes. It is a mixture of normal and high-speed live action, pixelation and time-lapse and filmed on an H16 Bolex.

The film was edited by Leo Casserly at Flix Post Production and the sound was mixed by Alistair Saunders at Hullabaloo Studios. The original 16mm print has sadly vanished, and the Beta version was rediscovered in 2012 and digitised by Simon Allmark & Mark Elliot at UCA.

It was fimed around the Mersey River and Chorlton Water Park in Manchester, in the studios of Cosgrove Hall and at Hall Sands and Berry Pomeroy, Devon.